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Holiday’s over, time to leave the sunny beach, the pool of the resort, and all the restaurantes. I ate so much meat, that I think a third breast is popping up in the middle of my chest. I’m starting this post while waiting the flight back home. And could I leave without a careful inspection [...]
Are you one of those who wear perfume at the beach? If you are, may you be punished by swimming in a sea of Opium perfume. But if you decided to wear Diesel perfume Fuel for life, I may even decide to forgive you. I’m writing from a sunny beach in Lanzarote for a two [...]
The day I wore a Britney Spears perfume… My niece Bea and I are enjoying the weekend at my place. She’s having love issues, with a guy called Diego. You can read about them in the previous perfume review, although you may probably be more interested in the part where it talks about Paris Hilton [...]
My niece Beatriz is staying a couple of days at my place. She’s a wonderful specimen of 16 year old: smart, sweet, and beautiful…and with Paris Hilton Perfume Heiress as her favorite perfume. As soon as she arrived she asked me to prepare her a hot bath. That was not a good day for her, [...]
Attention (my half-dozen) readers: this post is about Chloé perfume, but first things first… I’m back home after a drink with a friend in distress. Denise was left by her boyfriend after ten years. Yes, ten years… man I so have NO idea what it means to be with someone for such a long time. [...]
Ah, being a university student again…. This Gucci Rush brings me back to that young and thoughtless time, where the year 2000 was about to begin, and we though that would change everything, just to find out that the biggest change would be in the numbers in the calendar. It is a rainy Sunday today, [...]
I’ve just come back from a dinner at a friends’ place. My friend let me go with a good spray of Palazzo by Fendi, a designer perfume, which is very popular and quite expensive (for those who are not perfume lovers). My friend Monica is a very beautiful woman (I wonder why she’s still single), [...]
Would you freaking believe that this perfume was created in 1948 and not only is it still on the market, but it remains the best seller of the perfume house? I don’t own this Nina Ricci perfume for women, but I am lucky to have my old dear aunt Mercedes, who has this one and [...]
Ok, after 19 posts and almost one year of this blog, it’s probably time for a personal confession. Through perfumes, of course: this Ralph Lauren perfume, Romance, is the one I use on dates. I already hear the second question coming: does it work? Of course it does! But always remember that a perfume is [...]
Sooner or later the time would come: let’s talk about Davidoff Cool Water, a classic perfume with a fame of being attractive for women. Where should I start from? Let’s start from Lost, yes, the TV series. If you are a fan or, – like me, an ex-fan who had enough of all the black-smoke-and-polar-bear [...]
This Acqua di Gio by Giorgio Armani is the perfume I gave my dad for Christmas. I have to thank my friend Isabelle for making me try it. You see, my friend Isabelle only wears mens perfume, and this Acqua di Gio pour homme is one of her favorites. Ok I know your eyes went [...]
Jo Malone perfume, posh for a day, and thanks to my friends, for more than one. I said in my previous post on Paco Rabanne 1 Million that I would talk about perfumes given and received at Christmas. This Jo Malone Lotus Blossom and Water Lily belongs to the latter category, after all I couldn’t [...]
Guess what most of my presents (given and received) were for Christmas… yes, perfumes. So get over it, the next perfume reviews that I’ll write, will be about fragrances that I received from, or gave to someone. Like this 1 Million Paco Rabanne. If you’ve ever seen the ad, it’s slightly more naive than the [...]
Juicy Couture was founded as a fashion house in 1996 by two women: Gela Nash-Taylor (wife of Duran Duran’s bass guitarist John Taylor) and Pamela Skaist-Levyas. Its becoming a multimillionaire business (now owned by Liz Claiborne) passed through the creation a “luxury” perfume line. I put “luxury” in brackets because I always found Juicy Couture [...]
Glow by JLo was launched in 2002 and it was the first time for this famous pop star in the perfume industry. Of course it was not the first perfume signed by a celebrity (do you know which was the first ever? No, not Britney spears, a little bit further back in time: Elizabeth Taylor [...]
It was 2005 when I first gave this Fahrenheit Dior perfume as a present to my old friend Mark. He turned 40 that day, and now that I think about it, giving him a perfume, THIS Fahrenheit Christian Dior perfume, was a risky move. We know how critical that age can be for men. When [...]
This Kenzo perfume is almost 20 years old (1991), the first perfume Kenzo created for men. Time flies faster than I care to remember. The first time I smelt this perfume was on a friend of mine, we were going to a Joe Jackson concert (was it 1992?), I knew Kenzo perfumes for women fairly [...]
This was the first Cartier perfume for women, launched in 1981. It was part of Cartier’s renaissance, which had started in the sixties. After the death of the last of the founder’s nephews, the company was bought by a group of investors, and a new range of luxury products called “Les Must de Cartier,” was [...]
The re-encounters with perfumes in a perfume shop can be accidental, like with people. I first tried Prada perfume one year ago, and it didn’t really strike me, all I could remember was an intense vanilla note. I lost sight of it until last week when, after countless visits to many perfume shops I noticed [...]
The thing I like the most in any Creed perfume is the history of the perfume house (the House of Creed). It was founded in London by James Creed in 1760, and moved to Paris in 1854. It soon became the favorite perfume house of many European aristocracies. Today it is chaired by Oliver Creed, [...]